State v. Shephard’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Cooley (1972), State v. McCarty (1967)
31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Jones v. United States · Amos v. United States · People of the State of New York Ex Rel Albert Hatch v. Edward Reardon a · Judd v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The restrictions upon searches and seizures were obviously designed for protection against official invasion of privacy and the security of property. They are not exclusionary provisions against the admission of kinds of evidence deemed inherently unreliable or prejudicial.’ * * * “The 4th and 14th Amendments are not designed to help a guilty party escape the consequences of his act. Their purpose is to protect a person and his property from arbitrary and unreasonable searches and seizures. It is the ‘right of privacy’ that is protected.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cooley · State v. Rees
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.